Detecting 1934 Goudey Reprints

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

The card in question has myriad issues. Start with the listing. Guy had virtually no feedback and is running a one day auction. Even before you look at the card that should be setting off warning bells.

The card itself has issues too. The edges are just weird. Possibly a Dover reprint that had to have perforations removed? The image on the front is obviously a reproduction. It's not as crisp as an original. The back is all sorts of wrong. I don't know if it was a bad attempt at aging or what, but that mottled brown color is something I have never seen on a real Goudey. You can also more easily see that all of the borders are fuzzy which is also something I've never seen on a Goudey.

Hope this helps.

[steve B]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

The card in question has myriad issues. Start with the listing. Guy had virtually no feedback and is running a one day auction. Even before you look at the card that should be setting off warning bells.

The card itself has issues too. The edges are just weird. Possibly a Dover reprint that had to have perforations removed? The image on the front is obviously a reproduction. It's not as crisp as an original. The back is all sorts of wrong. I don't know if it was a bad attempt at aging or what, but that mottled brown color is something I have never seen on a real Goudey. You can also more easily see that all of the borders are fuzzy which is also something I've never seen on a Goudey.

Hope this helps.

That was pretty close to what I thought.
I don't usually look at the seller until last.

The front looks commercially produced, and like it was at least a little glossy. Just like the Dover reprints.
The back... wrong color stock that looks more like blotter paper, but is probably printed. The printing was probably done on a home computer printer then glued to a Dover so the stock isn't as obvious. I think they got the size of the back wrong, making it too large.